Happy 4th of July everyone!!! I hope everyone is having a good long weekend :)

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Long ago…back before by blogging days, i made this flag out of reclaimed wood for my sons room – the wood was on its way to the dump – very sad. But, no fear! I rescued it and made this cute flag – it still even has the old bird poop on it (the wood was from a bird coop) – is that gross, should i even be telling people this? The poop is on the back side – i was just to lazy to scrub it off ;)

So no tutorial – just some pics

Each piece of wood is a 2×6 so the flag is pretty big and heavy. I watered down all the paint and then sanded a lot of it off. I love how the 3rd piece has a big ol’ crack in it – it just adds to the “oldness” factor.

In “real” life the colors aren’t this bright – its a little more toned down – just so ya know…

I used some unfinished stars from the craft store

Then to hold it all together, i screwed some holes and tied all the slats with some wire – the wire was then curled with a pencil

The paint in his room was a ralph lauren denim glaze – i LOVE this technique – it was easy and fun and so very boy. I will be finishing up one last thing in his room and then will show you the whole room soon.

I will post more on my closet tomorrow. Until then, have fun and be careful with the fireworks!!!

Well, that's the cutest flag I've seen this season! Don't ya love making great things outta someone's trash? yeah.me too. When I do that, I want to show them what they almost threw away and be like, See? See what you could have had? :)P.S. Our computer chair, that was stored in my inlaws garage, had bird poop on it for months while it sat in our office….so. And we used it anyway. Because I was also too lazy to scrub it off.